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Marking the 80th anniversary of breaking of a siege of Leningrad. Life of the besieged city
The diaries and memoirs of Leningrad residents available in the Presidential Library’s collections tell about hunger, cold, bombings and the ways that helped to survive in the inhuman conditions of the siege. We bring to your attention a collection of quotes about the life of besieged Leningrad, which can be used to record videos and post them on pages on social networks with the hashtag #proryv80 as part of the Breakthrough 80 online relay. The project is being implemented by the Administration of Leningrad Region together with the Presidential Library. Learn more about the online project at the link.
- My siege: let my memories be a grateful memory / Zinaida Arkadievna Fedyushina
https://www.prlib.ru/item/1352979
- Memories of life in besieged Leningrad / Alexander Vladimirovich Zimmermanov
https://www.prlib.ru/item/1305036
Alexander Vladimirovich Zimmermanov (born 1931) - a resident of besieged Leningrad. The entire siege he was in Leningrad. After the death of his parents in 1942, he was brought up in the family of his father's sister.
- Diary of Igor Konstantinovich Malakhov. Notebook 1. 1941–1942
Igor Konstantinovich Malakhov (born 1927) was a senior student at the time of writing the diary; in the summer of 1942, he got a job as a fitter's apprentice at the ATUL repair plant, which, among other things, repaired city buses; On August 29, 1942, together with his mother, he was evacuated from Leningrad.
About life in besieged Leningrad in December 1941:
- Diary of Yuri Davydovich Khazanov. 1941–1942
- Diary of Valentina Alexandrovna Meller 1941-1942
https://www.prlib.ru/item/1177924
Valentina Alexandrovna Meller (nee Lodochkina, born in 1912) survived the siege of Leningrad, kept a diary from 1939 to 1945, which includes fragmentary entries made from June 1941 to June 1942.
- Elizaveta Alekseevna Dobrova (born 1930): “Memories of my siege”
“Leningrad residents of besieged city are a special kind of people! In the most difficult time of the siege of the city, hungry and weakened themselves, these people helped each other in any way and how they could! So we were helped by a neighbor on our stairs, who lived higher, above us. Noticing that my mother was not coming out, Aunt Zlata asked me about my mother. I told her everything, and she immediately came to us, looked at the state of her mother, grieved with us, and then went home and brought a whole saucer of mustard!!! It was truly a royal gift! Several times we put round mustard plasters, and this saved my mother's life.
Since then, it has remained in my memory forever - if a person is in trouble, he must be helped, with what and how you can! In difficult times, it is easier to endure all the troubles and hardships if you feel that there is a kind Person nearby who is with you and is ready to help in difficult times. Leningraders of those years and the “old generation” of true blockade survivors, like pioneers, are always ready to help those who are in trouble”.
- Nadezhda Vasilievna Fedorova (born 1927). Diary
- “And every day of war with me...”: memoirs of Nina Petrovna Polotskaya
https://www.prlib.ru/item/1175665
Nina Petrovna Polotskaya (born 1931) - a resident of besieged Leningrad, she was in the city from September 8, 1941 to January 4, 1944. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, veteran of labor, she was awarded state awards.